Posts by David Len
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CLOSE YOUR DAMN TABS
Why people with 50 chrome tabs opened are never to be trusted. The science of open loops, decision paralysis, and why 60-year-old virgins on yachts are still miserable.
Asian Corporate Culture in a Nutshell
Asian corporate dynamics. Business is so IZI. You know? You know!
How to Migrate Features Between Repos Using Google's Web Crawling Strategy
A zero-config tool that maps your repository structure like Google crawls websites. No dependencies, just drop this script in your project and get AI-ready context for feature migrations.
The Blood Tax - When Unfunded Debts Demand a Human Price
When fiscal illusions stretch past their limits, we settle them with blood. Examining how unsound money and unfunded pensions manifest as premature death, abstention from birth, and war.
10/15/2025
System Design Cheatsheet & Metaprompt for AI-Assisted Software Development
A universal framework and AI metaprompt for building applications from idea to scale. Includes cheatsheets, interview processes, and architecture blueprints for AI-assisted development.
How to migrate large projects with AI without context rot
Teaching AI coding assistants about giant projects without hitting context limits. Reframing from a prompt problem to a knowledge encapsulation problem through declarative contracts.
Status as economic catalyst
How social status functions as a chemical catalyst in economics by reducing verification costs. Understanding when the pursuit of status creates value versus when it becomes wasteful.
Rituals seems unavoidable
Why we dedicate 30-40% of our resources to seemingly wasteful rituals. Examining the 'belief tax' as the price we pay for trust, leveraged action, and filtering mechanism for ideas.
No one cares about you (nor should you care about them)
Why 0.01% of creators get 99.9% of views, why chasing attention is a noob trap, and why blogs outlast tweets. Stop chasing audiences and build something good enough.
I got 12M views, then got permabanned
Deplatformed by Linkedin after 12M views and 10 years of building.
Why every country is broke AF
It's real estate. Examining the accounting gimmick of the century: how houses became the only capital good exempted from depreciation, creating budget holes that require infinite money printing.
Why is soft drink cheaper than water?
Challenging the 'marketing' theory. Could carbonated drinks actually be cheaper due to distribution efficiency? Exploring how pressurized containers might explain the price paradox.